The Uberization of Freight

Martin Giles is a senior editor at Forbes, where he covers corporate tech executives and their strategic use of technology. He also chairs its market-leading summits and other gatherings for the tech community. Prior to joining Forbes, he was the San Francisco bureau chief of MIT Technology Review and before that he was a partner at a Silicon Valley venture firm investing in early-stage startups. Martin began his career at The Economist and spent more than a quarter century working in various editorial and business roles at the publication, including a period leading its coverage of America’s top technology companies. He is a graduate of Oxford University and has an executive MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Lior Ron has been at the helm of some of the most exciting technological developments of the past decade. He began his career as the CTO for Israeli Army Intelligence before joining Google in 2007. There he became the product lead for Google Maps, helping to scale the business from 10 million to 1 billion users, as well as launch products including My Maps, Google Map Maker and Google Local. After Google acquired Motorola in 2011, Lior was the first Google employee recruited to transform Motorola products, launching the award-winning Moto X and Moto 360 product lines. In 2016, Lior co-founded Otto, a self-driving truck company that was later acquired by Uber. Today, Lior is the Co-founder and Head of Uber Freight, Uber logistics business with a digital network of over 1 million drivers and thousands of shippers as customers across North America.